Skeining device



W. B. ROE ET AL SKEINING DEVICE Jan. 31, 1939.

Filed May 4, 1937 A SfeWar'f Patented Jan. 31, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SKEINING DEVICE Delaware Application May 4, 1937, Serial No. 140,656

4 Claims.

This invention relates to reels and more particularly to collection reels for use in the textile arts.

The principal object of the present invention 5 is to provide a reel across whose longitudinal bars a plurality of separate bundles of threads or yarn are adapted to be collected in skein or hank formation.

While the invention is of particular value in rayon manufacture, it will be appreciated its utility will be found in the winding of skeins or hanks of any kind of textile fiber.

In winding skeins or hanks of freshly spun rayon, it has been customary to supply each 001- 15 lection reel from several thread feeding mechanisms and to build up a plurality of skeins or hanks on each reel so that the resultant skeins are formed with an open cross or diamond wind. At the completion of the reeling operation the 20 skein must be removed from the reel and heretofore various and sundry mechanisms have been provided to reduce the diameter of the reel circumierence to allow the operator to readily remove the skeins.

A. further problem is presented, however, for the reason that before removal of the skeins they must be tied or laced at several points to insure that in subsequent operations the skein will be in condition for washing, bleaching and the like 3 without having its convolutions snarled or knotted.

The present invention therefore provides a reel on which the individual skeins are collected and retained in proper groups or bundles so that the 35 operator may easily lace or tie the groups or bundles of threads, and also one which has positive means for reducing the diameter of the reel to insure that the skeins may be quickly and expeditiously removed therefrom.

40 Referring to the accompanying drawing it will be seen that:

Fig. l is a side elevational view of the complete reel.

Fig. 2 is an end elevational view of the reel.

45 Fig. 3 is an enlarged end view, partlyin cross section showing the location of the parts in reeling position.

Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 3 showing the reel after its diameter has been reduced.

5 Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the reel bar which carries the diameter reducing mechanism.

Fig. 6 is a detail cross section when on the line 6-6 of Fig. l. 555 As illustrated in the several figures of the drawing the reel comprises an axle member l to which is attached a pair of spaced hubs or wheel-like bar holders 2. The hubs 2 are formed with an equal number of radiating integral bar holders 3, each holder being provided with an end socket 5 t in which a bar 5 or tube 6 is retained. In either instance the radius of the outer edge of the bar or tube is the same distance from the axle l One pair of bar holders 3' is equipped with sockets 4 in which is mounted a tubular bar 6' 10 having a plurality of arcuate segments l amxed thereto by means of countersunk screws 6. The segments l are constructed of any suitable material, such as molded resin, wood, cast metal, hard rubber or the like and each is formed with 3. l5 suitable number of circumferential grooves 9 having comparatively high walls l0.

As illustrated in enlarged Fig. 5, the tubular member 6' retained in socket t is capable of a limited rotary movement of 120 or in other words, from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 4. Thus the segments l carried on. bar t are normally positioned as in Figs. 1, 2 and 5 as the reeling operation progresses and hence the upper edges of the bottom of the grooves 9 2. are the same distance from the axle l as the outside edges of the fixed members 5 and 6.

The threads, yarns or filaments A to be collected are fed to the reel from any suitable source and due to a traverse movement applied to the reel. The material builds up around the reel and in the grooves 9 of the segments '0 in an open diamond or cross thread form. As illustrated, the reel shown is capable of having five skeins or hanks built up simultaneously thereon.

At the completion of the winding operation the machine operator pivots the segments carried on member 6 around 120 until they assume the position shown in Fig. 4 and thus reduces the high point of the reel and relieves the tension on the ,0 thread bodies A. Fig. 5 discloses a latch arrangement for holding member 6' in either raised or lowered position. The latch consists of a ball Ill cooperating with indentations l2 and 12 formed in the surface 'of the tubular bar 6', the ball ll being pressed inwardly by a coil spring l3 set in bore M in socket member d and the spring is retained in place by bolt l5. Rotation of member 6 against the friction of the latch is facilitated by having knurled end pieces l6 threaded into so the open ends of the tube.

We claim:

1. A skein winding reel having an axle, radiating hubs thereon, bars connecting said hubs, arcuate segments positioned on at least one of said bars, the said bar to which said segments are positioned being rotatable, said segments being held so that a straight line passes from either of their straight sides to the axle member during the skein winding operation and thereafter rotatable with the said bar to relieve the tension on the skein at the completion oi the winding operation.

2. A skein winding reel consisting of a horizontal axle, a pair of spaced hubs secured thereto, radiating sockets formed on the outer peripheries of said hub members, bars positioned in said sockets and running from hub to hub, at least one of said bars being adapted for rotary adjustment, a plurality of arcuate segments secured to said rotatable bar, circumferential grooves formed in the peripheries of said segments and a detent formed in the socket supporting said rotatable bar for holding said bar in adjusted position.

3. A winding reel for use in preparing textile yarns in skein formation consisting of a horizontal axle having a pair of spaced radiating wheellike members secured thereto, radiating sockets formed on the outer peripheries of said wheel like members, bars connecting corresponding sockets in each wheel member, at least one of said bars being rotatably adjustable in its pair of sockets, means for retaining the said rotatable bar in adjusted position, a plurality of arcuate segments secured to said rotatable bar in spaced relation thereon, each of said segments having circumferential grooves in their peripheries forming separating means for the yarn being wound on said reel.

4. A skein winding reel provided with means ior reducing its .outer diameter consisting of an axle, radiating hubs secured thereto and a plurality of bars afllxed to the outer peripheries of the said hubs, at least one of said bars being capable of rotating movement, a series of arcuate segments secured to the said rotating bar, the said segments being circumierentially grooved to accommodate the threads of the skein being wound, the bottom oi. the grooves in the said areuate segments being of the same radius as the nonrotating bars when either of the edges of the segments lie in a straight line with the axle and of a lesser radius when the segments are rotated with the rotatable bar.

WILEY B. ROE. PORTER R. STEWART. 

